Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama

ISBN-13: 9780521830959 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 248 str.

Lukas Erne; Margaret Jane Kidnie

Opis

Bringing together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays, these essays examine how what we know about early modern theater practice, the author and the printer will affect modern editorial decisions. Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of editorial modern practice.

Recenzje

'… the diversity of its approaches and methodologies makes it a stimulating and necessary guide which continuously draws the reader's attention to the ambivalences and inconsistencies of Shakespeare's text.' Modern Literary Review

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface; List of contributors; Introduction Lukas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie; Part I. Establishing the Text: 1. The two texts of Othello and early modern constructions of race Leah S. Marcus; 2. 'Work of permanent utility': editors and texts, authorities and originals H. R. Woudhuysen; 3. Housmania: episodes in twentieth-century 'critical' editing of Shakespeare Paul Werstine; 4. Addressing adaptation: Measure for Measure and Sir Thomas More John Jowett; 5. The New Bibliography and its critics Ernst Honigmann; 6. Scholarly editing and the shift from print to electronic cultures Sonia Massai; Part II. Presenting the Play: 7. 'Your sum of parts': doubling in Hamlet Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor; 8. The perception of error: the editing and the performance of the opening of Coriolanus Michael Warren; 9. Modern spelling: the hard choices David Bevington; 10. The staging of Shakespeare's drama in print editions Margaret Jane Kidnie; 11. Open stage, open page? Editing stage directions in early dramatic texts John D. Cox; 12. Two varieties of digital commentary John Lavagnino; 13. New collaborations with old plays: the (textual) politics of performance commentary Barbara Hodgdon; Index.